Writing History to Executive Order

Much WWII information will not be made public while anyone alive still lives.

I saw an interview once with the guy in charge of declassifying documents for the national archives. One thing he said stuck in my mind. He said that the oldest document still classified dates from 1917. He also said that he's seen it and it's "dynamite."

So what could it be that it still has to be kept a secret today? I've got two theories: 1) It pertains to the British royal family, or, and more likely, 2) it has something to do with the Russian Revolution. But what? U.S. involvement? Stalin was an American spy? What could it be?

I concur with your concern about the secrecy regarding Iran-Contra and the Chinese. In fact the secrecy has started a whole cottage industry of conspiracy writers on the subjects. I have read most of them.

I find the Chinese connections to be most alarming. There seems to be a paper trail and some convictions to prove many of the stories. The one I always seem to have problems with is the Mena airport.

Stories connecting the Mena airport to drugs all seem to have a similar beginning. It seems they are all based on three drug dealers in California who were supporting the Contra activities. Since the CIA was also supporting the same Contra activities and probably had some shared logistics with these people (i:e transportation needs via aircraft) it is likely that CIA assets may have been transported on craft owned or leased by these dealers.Now here is where the problem begins. The assuption then becomes that the CIA was dealing drugs. This is BS.

Mena airport I believe was a embarkation and re-supply point for the CIA operation in Nicaragua. Money from interdicted drug shipments may have made its way back through Mena (this is how they funded the operation in part)I don't know that it did but it seems likely. What I do know is that the CIA was not running or selling drugs. They were rolling drug operations in Honduras and Nicaragua,destroying the dope and taking the cash. I can't explain why the Chinese would be interested in the Mena bank. Possibly to be closer to the CIA (you know,keep you're enemy close) I am going to look further into that. That was right during the time when small S&Ls and banks were being used for bogus loans all over the country by Clintons buddies. That may be the only connection.

Anyway, this is how I see what I saw and read. It is understandable why the Admin. does not want to release something that would open this back up for review. Covert ops are meant to be kept secret for many reasons. The least of which is to protect the folks that worked for the goverment during these operations.

Protecting National Security is not an excuse to release what could be evidence of malfeasance or misdeeds in Office, no matter who the President

That is why we have a free press. Without it the words national security would be uttered way too often. As to the issues in this thread. They have all been investigated ad-nauseum at a cost of over 50 million. Hundreds of lawyers and dozens of congressional investigations yet there are still calls for the truth. Perhaps we really are down to the national security issue now.

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